It always mattered...
I'm utterly and deeply shocked at actor Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide at such a young age of 34. More so in the trail of events that followed this tragic incident. Switching to bullet points: It took a high profile suicide for a country like India to talk about mental health. A country where one in 20 people suffer from depression which according to the WHO is over 90 million Indians. Mental health had always mattered. In fact, the sirens have been deafening all these years but it took the life of a young, brilliant and successful mind for the country to start talking about why we should start talking about mental health! Every country has a mental health awareness day/month where they promote acts of kindness, sharing stories of overcoming mental ailments. Why isn't this practiced in India? When do we learn to break the stigma associated with mental illness and stop calling those suffering 'lunatics'? All the sudden love, praises and odes
